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Extensive central gray lesions did not interfere with septal self-stimulation behavior or escape responding to aversive dorsomedial tegmental stimulation.
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Supported by NIH research grant M-4529 and Career Development Award MH-4947, NASA research grant NsG-437, and NIH postdoctoral fellowship MH-25, 749.
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Cox, V.C., Valenstein, E.S. The effect of extensive mesencephalic central gray lesions on responses to reinforcing brain stimulation. Psychon Sci 4, 1–2 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342144
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